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All Blood Runs Red
FromPlane Tales
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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Feb 17, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
President of France, Charles de Gaulle is on a state visit to the United States of America and he asks to meet a French hero who holds the Légion d'honneur and who lives in New York. Eventually, retired lift operator is found and brought to the President. The man is Eugene Jacques Bullard and is almost unknown in the country of his birth but he holds a remarkable place in the history of aviation.
Title image by APG listener Jonathan Alexandratos who lives near Flushing Meadows cemetery and who took the time to visit the grave of Eugene Bullard which can be found in Section C.
Other images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Sus scrofa, Wikimedia Commons, US Gov USAF.
Title image by APG listener Jonathan Alexandratos who lives near Flushing Meadows cemetery and who took the time to visit the grave of Eugene Bullard which can be found in Section C.
Other images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Sus scrofa, Wikimedia Commons, US Gov USAF.
Released:
Feb 17, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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